The Compound - Chapters Chapter 3 Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
Woody Allen “He was watching a Woody Allen movie. I thought they were so stupid, but he would sit there for hours, laughing out loud. Maybe it was the combination of the two, Woody Allen’s humor that I didn’t get, along with my dad’s bizarre laugh, but I just could not deal. I turned back the other way.” Hundred Acre Wood
“ Terese’s room....was still done up like the Hundred Acre Woods from Winnie the Pooh; her bed was still a giant honey pot.”
Monet
“Mom’s favorite Monet hung on the wall over the headboard. It was the original, of course. I wondered if a replica hung on the wall of this bedroom.”
Puget Sound “A ways down the hall was my parents' room. We weren't allowed in, although I’d caught a glance one time, and it looked to be an exact replica of the one in our mansion on Puget Sound. ”
Cap'n Crunch
“He probably would have had a fit if he knew rowdy kids were eating their Cap’n Crunch on his expensive Egyptian linens.”
Paddington Bear Chronicles of Narnia Roald DahlPeter PanThe Hobbit
“Terese read every piece of British children’s literature she could find. When she was younger, it had been Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. Later it was The Chronicles of Narnia and everything by Roald Dahl. Peter Pan was her favorite.” “She saw the Compound as never-never land, a place where she would never have to grow up. Last time I’d seen her with a book, it had been The Hobbit, so maybe she finally decided to move on. ” Cold Mountain “Lexie read a lot of lengthy epic stories. She read Cold Mountain at least a dozen times. I finally got it away from her long enough to see what was so great about it. For a novel of the Civil War it was okay, but the ending was so depressing.”
Civil War
Dostoyevsky “My routine was to pick authors and read every book they’d written. The entire previous spring I had spent many dreary hours with Dostoyevsky.” Stephen King “ Stephen King was my current read. ”
“The Compound itself must have taken years to build. I never asked for the details. It would be like a lion asking about who built his cage. ”
“The air smelled of oranges, almost too much so. I’d expected the room to smell musty, like a museum. I’d forgotten that it was connected to the same ventilation system as the rest of the Compound. ”
“As I looked around that room, so much like mine had been, I felt strange, like I’d traveled back in time.”
“I walked quickly past the next door, as I always did.....The rooms went on and on, like berries on a bush. ”
“Eddy and I had lived on the Internet, playing online games, instant messaging our friends. We even IM’ed each other at night, even though we were separated by only a bedroom wall.”
The Compound - Chapters
Chapter 3
Allusions and other ReferencesAll Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
Woody Allen
Hundred Acre Wood
“ Terese’s room....was still done up like the Hundred Acre Woods from Winnie the Pooh; her bed was still a giant honey pot.”
Monet
“Mom’s favorite Monet hung on the wall over the headboard. It was the original, of course. I wondered if a replica hung on the wall of this bedroom.”
Puget Sound
Cap'n Crunch
“He probably would have had a fit if he knew rowdy kids were eating their Cap’n Crunch on his expensive Egyptian linens.”
Paddington Bear
Chronicles of Narnia
Roald DahlPeter PanThe Hobbit
“Terese read every piece of British children’s literature she could find. When she was younger, it had been Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. Later it was The Chronicles of Narnia and everything by Roald Dahl. Peter Pan was her favorite.”
Cold Mountain
Civil War
“My routine was to pick authors and read every book they’d written. The entire previous spring I had spent many dreary hours with Dostoyevsky.”
Stephen King
“ Stephen King was my current read. ”
Vocabulary and Concepts
replica
duplicates
duplicates
genre
ventilation
incinerators
hovered
two-sided fireplace
reverse osmosis
Literary Devices
“The Compound itself must have taken years to build. I never asked for the details. It would be like a lion asking about who built his cage. ”
“The air smelled of oranges, almost too much so. I’d expected the room to smell musty, like a museum. I’d forgotten that it was connected to the same ventilation system as the rest of the Compound. ”
“As I looked around that room, so much like mine had been, I felt strange, like I’d traveled back in time.”
“I walked quickly past the next door, as I always did.....The rooms went on and on, like berries on a bush. ”
“Eddy and I had lived on the Internet, playing online games, instant messaging our friends. We even IM’ed each other at night, even though we were separated by only a bedroom wall.”